Faculty Development Workshop

Offered jointly by Project TIER and the UCLA Social Science Data Archive

UCLA, Los Angeles

March 12, 2018

This full-day workshop will present several workflows and tools for conducting and documenting quantitative research to ensure transparency and reproducibility of the data processing and analysis that underlie reported statistical results. There will be a particular emphasis on strategies instructors can use to integrate these methods into their classes and advising, so that students are immersed in principles and practices of transparency early in their research training.

Past events

Workshop in Methods

Indiana University, Social Science Research Commons

Jan. 26, 2018

Project TIER Directors Richard Ball and Norm Medeiros gave a talk titled "Documenting Quantitative Research for Transparency and Reproducibility: Principles and Standards." This talk was part of the Workshop in Methods organized by the Social Science Research Commons at Indiana University.

Faculty Development Workshop-Fall 2017

Haverford College

Nov. 17, 2017 to Nov. 18, 2017

This workshop introduced participants to the TIER Protocol for replicable empirical research and other tools for research transparency. It was attended by faculty members interested in teaching students at their own institutions to adopt transparent and reproducible methods in the statistical work they do for senior theses, other independent research projects, class papers, and exercises.

Society for Neuroscience

Robert Calin-Jageman, Associate Professor of Psychology at Dominican University, organized a two-hour Professional Development Workshop titled "Improving Your Science: Sample-size Planning, Pre-Registration, and Reproducible Data Analysis." Presenters included Calin-Jageman, David Mellor (Program Manager at the Center for Open Science), and Richard Ball (Project TIER). Richard's slides are available here. Slides from all presenters are available at on the Open Science Framework.

10th Annual International Open Access Week

Norm Medeiros and Richard Ball gave a talk titled "From Open Access to Open Science: Enhancing Transparency and Reproducibility in Social Science Research." Slides from the event are available here.

Instilling Integrity in the Next Generation of Researchers: Project TIER and Beyond

First Conference of Association for Integrity and Responsible Leadership in Economics and Associated Professions (AIRLEAP)

St. Louis

Oct. 13, 2017 to Oct. 14, 2017

This session was organized, and included presentations, by Richard Ball (Professor of Economics at Haverford College, and Director of Project TIER), Simon Halliday (Assistant Professor of Economics at Smith College, and 2016-17 TIER Faculty Fellow), and Michael O'Hara (Assistant Professor of Economics at St. Lawrence University, and 2015-16 TIER Faculty Fellow).

Graduate Student Workshop on Reproducible Research

Department of Applied Economics

Cornell University

Sept. 14, 2017 to Sept. 15, 2017

This workshop will was led by Richard Ball (Professor of Economics at Haverford College, and Director of Project TIER) and Tomas Dvorak (Professor of Economics at Union College, and 2015-16 TIER Faculty Fellow). Read the workshop announcement. Slides from the first day of the workshop are available here.

Making Replication Documentation Useful

This event was part of the 2018 Blalock Lecture Series at the ICPSR Summer Program. It included presentations by Arthur Lupia (Hal R. Varian Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan, and Chairman of the Board of the Center for Open Science), William Jacoby (Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University, and editor of the American Journal of Political Science), and Richard Ball (Professor of Economics at Haverford College, and Director of Project TIER).

Managing Data for Reproducible Results

ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research

Ann Arbor, MI

July 24, 2017 to July 28, 2017

Project TIER Advisor J. Scott Long held a week-long workshop at the ICPSR Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Science Research. The workshop demonstrated how to develop a workflow that is guided by the demands of producing reproducible and accurate statistical results while working as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Faculty Development Workshop--Spring 2017

Haverford College

March 31, 2017 to April 1, 2017

This full-day workshop introduced participants to the TIER protocol for replicable empirical research. It was intended for faculty members interested in teaching their own students to follow this protocol to document the statistical work they do for senior theses, other independent research projects, or papers written for classes.

The Gold Standard of Reproducible Research

An interdisciplinary conference and workshop on the causes of and remedies for reproducibility problems in social science research. TIER Director Richard Ball led a session and participated in a panel discussion.

Faculty Development Workshop

Occidental College, Los Angeles

Jan. 9, 2017

This full-day workshop introduced participants to the TIER protocol for replicable empirical research. It was intended for faculty members interested in teaching their own students to follow this protocol to document the statistical work they do for senior theses, other independent research projects, or papers written for classes.

TIER Faculty Development Workshop

Haverford College

Nov. 18, 2016 to Nov. 19, 2016

This workshop introduced participants to the TIER protocol for replicable empirical research. It was attended by faculty members interested in teaching their own students to follow this protocol to document the statistical work they do for senior theses, other independent research projects, or papers written for classes.

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

14th Annual Professors Conference

Graduate Student Workshop

University of Colorado, BoulderInstitute for Behavioral Sciences

Sept. 9, 2016

Project TIER co-director Richard Ball gave a workshop for doctoral students affiliated with the Institute of Behavioral Sciences on efficient workflows for conducting and documenting reproducible empirical research.

American Sociological Association

Annual Meeting​Seattle, Washington

Aug. 21, 2016

TIER Faculty Fellow Nathan Wright led an Informal Discussion Roundtable on "Promoting Best Practices for Reproducibility and Replication in the Teaching and Practice of Research Methodologies."